

Using harmonic interval names, the names are easy to find, but they bear little relationship to the sound. * based on treating 16edo as a 2.5.7.13.19.27 subgroup temperament other approaches are possible.ġ6edo chords can be named using ups and downs. Furthermore, conventional 12edo music can be directly translated to 16edo "on the fly".Īlternatively, one can use Armodue nine-nominal notation see #Hexadecaphonic Notation Degree While this approach may seem bizarre at first, interval arithmetic and chord names work as usual. Sharp is lower in pitch than flat, and major/aug is narrower than minor/dim. The second approach is to preserve the *harmonic* meaning of sharp/flat, major/minor and aug/dim, in that the former is always further fifthwards on the chain of fifths than the latter. Chord names are different because C - E - G is not P1 - M3 - P5. The disadvantage to this approach is that conventional interval arithmetic no longer works. The first preserves the melodic meaning of sharp/flat, major/minor and aug/dim, in that sharp is higher pitched than flat, and major/aug is wider than minor/dim. Odd harmonics Approximation of odd harmonics in 16edoġ6edo can be notated with conventional notation, including the staff, note names, relative notation, etc. Four steps of it gives the 300 cent minor third interval, the same of that 12edo, giving it four diminished seventh chords exactly like those of 12edo, and a diminished triad on each scale step. 9.1 MOS scales supporting Metallic Harmony in 16edoġ6edo is not especially good at representing most low-odd-limit musical intervals, but it has a 7/4 which is only six cents sharp, and a 5/4 which is only eleven cents flat.7 16-tone piano layout based on the mavila/antidiatonic scale.
